Fortunate Young Gentleman

Northwest, endless grassland.

More than ten fast horses were galloping on the grassland. A few miles behind them, hundreds of light cavalry were chasing closely. The strong men with bows on their backs were about to draw their bows. A woman waved her hand and said, "The Khan said, capture them all alive."

Several people put down their bows and arrows after hearing this.

A mile away, among the more than ten people, a young general urged his horse forward, looked at Xiao Jue, and said, "General, you go first, we will stay behind to cover the rear..."

"How long can you stop them with just a few of you?" Xiao Jue stuck to the horse and said, "Run separately, as many as you can run..."

"General!"

"This is an order!"

...

The young general looked at Xiao Jue with a solemn expression, turned back and said, "The general has ordered, everyone run separately!"

The pursuers behind were getting closer, and more than ten cavalrymen heard the words, turned their horses' heads and fled in different directions.

Half a day ago, their team of 500 people happened to encounter a large group of grassland cavalry. Except for the dozen of them who broke through, all the 500 people were captured alive.

Although they escaped by chance, they were about to be caught up.

In the back, one of the pursuers shouted loudly: "They fled separately, chase them separately!"

Seeing this, the woman with the bow on her back took off the bow and arrow on her back, drew the bow and shot an arrow.

Whoosh!

The horse under Xiao Jue neighed and fell to the ground. Xiao Jue fell off the horse and rolled onto the grass. When he looked up, there was already a figure in front of him.

The woman pointed the arrow at him and said in not very standard Chinese: "Surrender."

When Xiao Jue got up from the ground, several people had already rushed forward and captured him.

Although more than a dozen knights fled separately, they still could not escape the fate of being captured alive. Soon, they were all captured and tied up on horses. The team of hundreds of people slowly went deeper into the grassland.

A grassland man said: "The Han people killed so many of us, and these people captured our compatriots. Let's just kill them..."

The woman with a bow on her back looked at him and asked: "Do you want to disobey the order of the fourth princess?"

The man looked tangled, bowed his head and clasped his fists and said: "I dare not."

Not long after, he raised his head and asked again: "The fourth princess wants the Han people to coexist peacefully with us. How is this possible? The eldest prince will not agree, the third prince will not agree, and the Khan will not agree. If this continues, the Khan will take back her tribe..."

"Don't worry about these. It's not our turn to teach the fourth princess what to do." The woman with a bow on her back said lightly, and the man never said a word again.

The group continued to go deeper, and soon, the ground under their feet suddenly shook slightly.

They looked up and saw a black line in front of them. Thousands of cavalrymen were galloping towards them.

The man looked at the flag in the front and said, "It's the prince's men!"

The cavalry stopped dozens of feet away from them. A muscular man rode up and laughed, "It turned out to be Commander A Yue. Did you catch the Han general?"

The woman with a bow on her back said, "Yes, Butai, you are late. He is our prisoner now."

The man named Butai waved his hand and said, "We have been looking for them for three whole days. How did they become your prisoners?"

The woman with a bow on her back said, "Whoever catches it will be theirs. This is the rule."

"The rules also require first come first served." The man looked at her and said, "The eldest prince said that this man has captured too many of our compatriots. He ordered me to capture him and send him to the Khan's tent to be publicly executed to boost the morale of our army. Then I will cut off his head and send it to Chen State for them to see..., you dare to disobey the eldest prince's order?"

The woman with a bow on her back said calmly, "It was also the fourth princess's order to capture them alive. How dare you disobey?"

The man looked at him and said, "This is the eldest prince's order. Commander A Yue should not embarrass us."

As soon as he finished speaking, the thousands of cavalrymen behind him took a few steps forward, and the faces of the people behind the woman with a bow on her back suddenly changed.

Five hundred against thousands, they had no chance of winning.

The woman with a bow on her back looked at him, and after a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Give them the people."

The people behind him breathed a sigh of relief and immediately pushed Xiao Jue out.

"Thank you." The man on the opposite side bowed to him and said with a smile: "Let's go back!"

Seeing the cavalrymen taking the man and turning back, a man next to the woman with a bow on his back said angrily: "The prince's men are too bullying. We obviously caught the man!"

The woman with a bow on her back glanced at him and asked: "Why didn't you say it just now?"

The man retracted his head and asked: "Commander, what should we do next?"

The woman with a bow on her back shook the reins and said: "Go back and report to the princess."

...

Deep in the grassland, inside the tent of a grassland somewhere in the Wanyan tribe.

Wanyan Yan looked at the woman with a bow on her back and asked, "Where are the people?"

The woman with a bow on her back shook her head and said, "We captured 500 people and some generals, and their general was taken away by the prince's men."

Wanyan Yan frowned and said, "The prince?"

"Butai personally led people and took the man away." The woman with a bow on her back said, "He said that the prince wanted to publicly execute the general of the State of Chen to boost the morale of our army, and then send his head to the State of Chen for them to see..."

Wanyan Yan's face changed slightly and said, "In this way, our hatred with the State of Chen will only deepen, and there will be no possibility of peace, right?"

The arched woman looked at her and said, "Should we go and have a look."

Wan Yanyan nodded and said, "Go and have a look. If you can stop them, you must stop them..."

…

Chen Guo, Shengzhou.

Fengzhou and Shengzhou are very close to the grassland and are the first line of defense laid by Chen State in the northwest. There are 300,000 troops stationed in these two states alone, and they are also the front line of the northwest's fight against the grassland.

A flying cavalry galloped from the post road and went straight into the military camp. The knight on horseback stopped in front of a large tent, dismounted, ran into the handsome tent, and shouted: "General, urgent report from the front!"

The middle-aged man wearing armor and with a calm expression sat firmly in the tent, glanced at him, and said, "Tell me."

The knight said: "Reporting to the general, the soldiers and horses of the main Wanyan tribe suddenly appeared north of Yinshan Mountain. General Xiao and the five hundred soldiers under his command were unfortunately captured alive by them. News came from the front that the Wanyan tribe was going to attack Xiao. The general carried out a public execution..."

"What!" After hearing this, the middle-aged man could no longer keep his expression calm. He slammed the table and said loudly: "Say it again!"

The knight gritted his teeth and said: "Wanyan Department, Wanyan Department will conduct a public execution of General Xiao, and invite all the tribesmen of Cao Sushen to watch the execution. The time, the time is three days later..."

The middle-aged man sat down again and murmured: "Three days, it's too late..."

A general stood up and said anxiously: "General, please send an army into the grassland immediately to rescue General Xiao..."

"Shut up!" The middle-aged man looked at him and said sternly: "Are you going to let all the soldiers in the army die in order to rescue General Xiao?"

The general's body trembled and he could only sit down honestly.

The middle-aged man thought for a while, looked at the other man, and said: "Send the envoy to Wanyan tribe quickly to negotiate with them. We are willing to exchange twice the number of prisoners of war for the lives of General Xiao and five hundred soldiers..."

The man said: "General, Wanyan Department never negotiates with us..."

"Now that things have come to a point, we can only give it a try first." The middle-aged man sighed and said, "In addition, we have to hurry up and send this matter to the capital as soon as possible..."